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  2. List of plantation great houses in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.

  3. Trinity plantation - Wikipedia

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    Trinity plantation (centre) on James Robertson's map of 1804 [2] 1874 auction sale map of Trinity Estate. [3] Trinity was a plantation in colonial Jamaica, located south of Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, one of several plantations owned by Zachary Bayly that formed part of the area known as Bayly's Vale. By the early nineteenth century, over ...

  4. Goldeneye (estate) - Wikipedia

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    Goldeneye estate. Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica.He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.

  5. Brimmer Hall - Wikipedia

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    Detail of Brimmer Hall from "Trinity Estate, St. Mary's" by James Hakewill, 1820-21. [1] Brimmer Hall as shown on James Robertson's map of 1804. Brimmer Hall is a Jamaican Great House and 642 acres (2.60 km 2) plantation [2] located near Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica.

  6. List of cities and towns in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...

  7. Whither Shall I Wander? - Wikipedia

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    In the summer of 1930, family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon calls at Eaton Place to advise everyone about the estate left by the late James Bellamy. Georgina is the main legatee but will inherit nothing; the lease of No. 165 Eaton Place has to be sold to help meet the debts charged against James' estate, and family and staff will need to find ...

  8. List of islands of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica Pellen Island Morant Cays. This is a list of islands of Jamaica.There are about 49 islands in the island nation of Jamaica.All islands are in the Caribbean Sea.The island of Jamaica has an area of 10,990 km 2 (4,240 sq mi) and is the third largest island in the Caribbean, after Cuba and Hispaniola.

  9. Frontier Estate - Wikipedia

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    Frontier Estate was a sugar plantation located in Port Maria, Jamaica. [1] The estate covered 1,415 acres which were worked by 325 enslaved Africans in 1832. [ 2 ] Following emancipation in 1834, the formerly enslaved Africans were obliged to remain on the plantations as "apprentices", whereby they worked as before for three-quarters of their ...